Movies released in 1988| 976-EVIL | Robert Englund |
| Aakhri Adaalat | Rajiv Mehra |
| Action Jackson | Craig R. Baxley |
| Akira | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Alice | Jan Švankmajer |
| Alien from L.A. | Albert Pyun |
| Amsterdamned | Dick Maas |
| Angel III: The Final Chapter | Tom DeSimone |
| Animal Protector | Mats Helge |
| Appleseed | Kazuyoshi Katayama |
| As Tears Go By | Wong Kar-wai |
| Backfire | Gilbert Cates |
| Bad Blood | Chuck Vincent |
| Bad Dreams | Andrew Fleming |
| Beetlejuice | Tim Burton |
| Beyond the Rising Moon | Philip J. Cook |
| Big | Penny Marshall |
| Big Bird in Japan | Jon Stone |
| Big Business | Jim Abrahams |
| Black Eagle | Eric Karson |
| Black Roses | John Fasano |
| The Blob | Chuck Russell |
| Bloodsport | Newt Arnold |
| The Brain | Ed Hunt |
| Brain Damage | Frank Henenlotter |
| Bull Durham | Ron Shelton |
| Caddyshack II | Allan Arkush |
| Cameron's Closet | Armand Mastroianni |
| The Carpenter | David Wellington |
| The Carrier | Nathan J. White |
| Catacombs | David Schmoeller |
| Cellar Dweller | John Carl Buechler |
| Cheerleader Camp | John Quinn |
| Child's Play | Tom Holland |
| Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore |
| Clean and Sober | Glenn Gordon Caron |
| Cocktail | Roger Donaldson |
| Colors | Dennis Hopper |
| Coming to America | John Landis |
| Contagion | Karl Zwicky |
| Cop | James B. Harris |
| Critters 2 | Mick Garris |
| Crocodile Dundee II | John Cornell |
| Curse of the Blue Lights | John Henry Johnson |
| Cyber Ninja | Keita Amemiya |
| D.O.A. | Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel |
| Dance Academy | Ted Mather |
| Dangerous Game | Stephen Hopkins |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Stephen Frears |
| Dawn of an Evil Millennium | Damon Packard |
| Day of the Panther | Brian Trenchard-Smith |
| Dead Heat | Mark Goldblatt |
| Dead Man Walking | Gregory Dark |
| Dead Mate | Straw Weisman |
| The Dead Pool | Buddy Van Horn |
| Dead Ringers | David Cronenberg |
| Deadbeat at Dawn | Jim Van Bebber |
| Deadly Dreams | Kristine Peterson |
| Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell | Alfonso Corona |
| Deep Space | Fred Olen Ray |
| Demon City Shinjuku | Yoshiaki Kawajiri |
| Demonwarp | Emmett Alston |
| Dial: Help | Ruggero Deodato |
| Diamond Ninja Force | Godfrey Ho |
| The Diary of a Big Man | Chor Yuen |
| Die Hard | John McTiernan |
| Dim Sum Take-Out | Wayne Wang |
| Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Frank Oz |
| The Discarnates | Nobuhiko Ōbayashi |
| Doom Asylum | Richard Friedman |
| Dracula's Widow | Christopher Coppola |
| Dragons Forever | Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen |
| Driving Force | Andrew Prowse |
| Drop-Out Mother | Charles S. Dubin |
| Edge of the Axe | José Ramón Larraz |
| Elvira, Mistress of the Dark | James Signorelli |
| Ernest Saves Christmas | John R. Cherry III |
| Evil Dead Trap | Toshiharu Ikeda |
| Fatal Pulse | Anthony J. Christopher |
| A Fish Called Wanda | Charles Crichton |
| Flesh Eating Mothers | James Aviles Martin |
| For Keeps | John G. Avildsen |
| Fresh Kill | Joseph Merhi |
| Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood | John Carl Buechler |
| Fright Night Part 2 | Tommy Lee Wallace |
| Funny Farm | George Roy Hill |
| Getting Even | Leandro Lucchetti |
| Ghosthouse | Umberto Lenzi |
| Ghosts... of the Civil Dead | John Hillcoat |
| Grave of the Fireflies | Isao Takahata |
| The Great Outdoors | Howard Deutch |
| Grievous Bodily Harm | Mark Joffe |
| Grotesque | Joe Tornatore |
| Hack-O-Lantern | Jag Mundhra |
| Hairspray | John Waters |
| Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers | Dwight H. Little |
| Hansel and Gretel | Len Talan |
| Hard Rock Nightmare | Dominick Brascia |
| Hell Comes to Frogtown | Donald G. Jackson, R.J. Kizer |
| Hellbent | Richard Casey |
| Hellbound: Hellraiser II | Tony Randel |
| Hero and the Terror | William Tannen |
| Hide And Go Shriek | Skip Schoolnik |
| Hobgoblins | Rick Sloane |
| Hot to Trot | Michael Dinner |
| I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | Keenen Ivory Wayans |
| Iced | Jeff Kwitny |
| In the Line of Duty 3 | Brandy Yuen, Arthur Wong |
| The Inspector Wears Skirts | Wellson Chin |
| Intrépidos punks | Francisco Guerrero |
| Jack's Back | Rowdy Herrington |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Rusty Lemorande, Albert Pyun |
| Judgement Day | Ferde Grofé Jr. |
| Jungle Heat | Ratno Timoer |
| Kadaicha | James Bogle |
| Killer Klowns from Outer Space | Stephen Chiodo |
| Killing Birds | Claudio Lattanzi, Joe D'Amato |
| The Kiss | Pen Densham |
| Lady in White | Frank LaLoggia |
| The Lair of the White Worm | Ken Russell |
| The Land Before Time | Don Bluth |
| The Last Temptation of Christ | Martin Scorsese |
| The Lawless Land | Jon Hess |
| Let Sleeping Cops Lie | José Pinheiro |
| License to Drive | Greg Beeman |
| Lone Wolf | John Callas |
| Lucky Stiff | Anthony Perkins |
| Lurkers | Roberta Findlay |
| Mac and Me | Stewart Raffill |
| Magic of Spell | Chiu Chung-Hing |
| Mamba | Mario Orfini |
| The Man From Snowy River II | Geoff Burrowes |
| Maniac Cop | William Lustig |
| Married to the Mob | Jonathan Demme |
| Masquerade | Bob Swaim |
| Memorial Valley Massacre | Robert C. Hughes |
| Midnight Run | Martin Brest |
| Miracle Mile | Steve De Jarnatt |
| Mirror of Death | Deryn Warren |
| Mississippi Burning | Alan Parker |
| Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Monkey Shines | George A. Romero |
| Monster Dog | Claudio Fragasso |
| Moving Target | Chris Thomson |
| Mr Vampire Saga 4 | Ricky Lau |
| The Murder Secret | Mario Bianchi |
| My Neighbor Totoro | Hayao Miyazaki |
| My Stepmother is an Alien | Richard Benjamin |
| Mystic Pizza | Donald Petrie |
| The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | David Zucker |
| The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey | Vincent Ward |
| Necromancer | Dusty Nelson |
| The Nest | Terence H. Winkless |
| Night of the Demons | Kevin Tenney |
| Night Wars | David A. Prior |
| Nightmare at Noon | Nico Mastorakis |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master | Renny Harlin |
| Nightmare Sisters | David DeCoteau |
| Not of This Earth | Jim Wynorski |
| Oliver & Company | George Scribner |
| Om Dar-B-Dar | Kamal Swaroop |
| On the Run | Alfred Cheung Kin-Ting |
| Out of the Dark | Michael Schroeder |
| Outlaw Force | David Heavener |
| Paperhouse | Bernard Rose |
| Paramedics | Stuart Margolin |
| Phantasm II | Don Coscarelli |
| The Phantom Empire | Fred Olen Ray |
| Phantom of Death | Ruggero Deodato |
| Phantom of the Ritz | Allen Plone |
| Phoenix the Warrior | Robert Hayes |
| Picasso Trigger | Andy Sidaris |
| Pin | Sandor Stern |
| Plain Clothes | Martha Coolidge |
| Police Story 2 | Jackie Chan |
| Poltergeist III | Gary Sherman |
| The Presidio | Peter Hyams |
| Primal Rage | Vittorio Rambaldi |
| Prime Evil | Roberta Findlay |
| The Prince of Terror | Lamberto Bava |
| Pulse | Paul Golding |
| Pumpkinhead | Stan Winston |
| Pushed Too Far | Jack Rooney |
| Puss in Boots | Eugene Marner |
| Radio Bikini | Robert Stone |
| Rage to Kill | David Winters |
| Raiders of the Magic Ivory | Tonino Ricci |
| Rain Man | Barry Levinson |
| Rambo III | Peter MacDonald |
| Rat Man | Giuliano Carnimeo |
| Red Heat | Walter Hill |
| Rejuvenatrix | Brian Thomas Jones |
| Remote Control | Jeff Lieberman |
| Return of the Living Dead Part II | Ken Wiederhorn |
| Robo Vampire | Joe Livingstone |
| Robowar | Bruno Mattei |
| Rock and the Money-Hungry Party Girls | Kurt MacCarley |
| Scarecrows | William Wesley |
| Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School | Charles A. Nichols |
| Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf | Ray Patterson |
| Scorpion Thunderbolt | Godfrey Ho |
| Scrooged | Richard Donner |
| The Serpent and the Rainbow | Wes Craven |
| The Seventh Sign | Carl Schultz |
| Shaolin vs. Vampire | Gordon Liu Chia-Hui |
| Shattered Innocence | Sandor Stern |
| She's Having a Baby | John Hughes |
| Slaughterhouse Rock | Dimitri Logothetis |
| Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers | Michael A. Simpson |
| Slime City | Greg Lamberson |
| Slugs | Juan Piquer Simón |
| Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em | Ray Boseley |
| Sodoma's Ghost | Lucio Fulci |
| Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama | David DeCoteau |
| Space Mutiny | David Winters |
| Spellcaster | Rafal Zielinski |
| The Spider Labyrinth | Gianfranco Giagni |
| Stars & Bars | Pat O'Connor |
| Super Xuxa Versus Down Mood | David Sonnenschein, Anna Penido |
| Survival Quest | Don Coscarelli |
| Tales from the Gimli Hospital | Guy Maddin |
| Talk Radio | Oliver Stone |
| Tapeheads | Bill Fishman |
| Tequila Sunrise | Robert Towne |
| Terminal Entry | John Kincade |
| Terror Squad | Peter Maris |
| Terrorgram | Stephen M. Kienzle |
| The Terrorists | Nick Millard |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait | Brad Shellady |
| They Live | John Carpenter |
| The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris |
| This is America, Charlie Brown | Evert Brown |
| The This is America, Charlie Brown | Evert Brown |
| Three-Head Monster | Wang Chu-Chin |
| Through the Fire | Gary Marcum |
| Thunder of Gigantic Serpent | Lee Chiu |
| Tiger Cage | Yuen Woo-ping |
| Too Beautiful to Die | Dario Piana |
| Top Line | Nello Rossati |
| Touch of Death | Lucio Fulci |
| Transformations | Jay Kamen |
| Trapped Alive | Leszek Burzynski |
| Traxx | Jerome Gary |
| Troma's War | Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman |
| Twins | Ivan Reitman |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman |
| Uninvited | Greydon Clark |
| Unmasking The Idol | Worth Keeter |
| The Unnamable | Jean-Paul Ouellette |
| Vampire's Kiss | Robert Bierman |
| The Vanishing | George Sluizer |
| Video Violence 2 | Gary Cohen |
| Watchers | Jon Hess |
| Waxwork | Anthony Hickox |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis |
| Willow | Ron Howard |
| Witchcraft | Rob Spera |
| Witchery | Fabrizio Laurenti |
| The Witches' Sabbath | Marco Bellocchio |
| Without Reservation | Fred Carpenter |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar |
| You Can't Hurry Love | Richard Martini |
| Zombie 3 | Lucio Fulci |
| Zombie Death House | John Saxon |